Welcome to Archiving AK, a podcast of the Archives and Special Collections at the UAA/APU Consortium Library.
We want to take you on an audio tour of archiving in Alaska. A look at archives and archivists, archival collections, our researchers and all sorts of other things related to the work we do.
The hosts for season 2 are:
Want to suggest a topic? Have you done research with us and would like to appear on our podcast to talk about that research? If you have a question or topic related to archives and Alaska that would make a good podcast subject for us, please let us know by using the Contact Us link at the top of the page.
It’s the peak of tourism season in Alaska, so we’re reading letters from tourists in our holdings! Tour guide Becky Butler Gallegos will give you a quick overview of various tourism routes in Alaska. We’ll hear from folks traveling the …
We’re pausing our regularly scheduled Letters Live season to bring you an episode explaining oral histories, introducing our new Student Oral History Project, and providing an example of an oral history interview. Our summer intern, Rachel, hosts and is interviewed …
In honor of Memorial Day, we’re reading World War II era letters from our holdings! Special guests include the UAA/APU Consortium Library’s very own Ryan O’Mara and our Archives intern Rachel Nill. They’ll share about their military and archives experience …
We’re back with more letters from the Archives! This time our theme is public health in Alaska. Special guests Fabiola Lugo Vasquez, Dr. Wendy Replogle Strawbridge, and Dr. Hild read letters held in the Archives from public health professionals throughout …
We’re rebooting our podcast, Archiving AK! With this one, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. In the podcast, Arlene, Becky, and Gwen all read some letters from our holdings from people in Anchorage …
For our last episode in our Archives Month series of the Archiving AK podcast, we have an interview with Freya Anderson from the Alaska State Library about copyright.
Mentioned in this episode:
Next up in our Archives Month podcast series is an interview with Nancy Yeaton and Andrea Floersheimer from Chugachmiut Heritage Preservation, which helps to preserve the cultures, languages and histories of the Alaska Native peoples and communities of the Chugach …
In mid-September, Arlene sat down virtually with three of the curators from the Ketchikan Museums: Hayley Chambers, Erika Christian, and Ryan McHale. In part two of this podcast, we focus in on their oral history program. They talk about how …
In mid-September, Arlene sat down virtually with three of the curators: Hayley Chambers, Erika Christian, and Ryan McHale, from the Ketchikan Museums. In part one of this podcast, we talk about their missions and collections, how archival collections fit into …
A new episode: this one is the 5th in our October 2021 Archives Month reboot of our podcast. In this episode, Arlene talks with Desiree Ramirez, Alissa Gardner, and Chris Warner. Desiree is the museum specialist at Wrangell – St. …
